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Illinois River Road Scenic Byway - The Long and Winding Road

Aug 152010

Banner Marsh

Fermata’s projects are often protracted affairs, epical rather than ephemeral. Our work often extends for a decade or more, with the completion of each phase catalyzing another. Frequently the people we began a project with move on to new opportunities or retirement before we finish. We are often the last one’s standing, the only people remaining who remember precisely how it all began.

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On the Road (again)

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Apr 262010

The next few weeks are dominated by travel. There is nothing like spring to entice one outside. This week I am in Scott County, assessing sites for a heritage tourism analysis. We are working with Carolyn Brackett, a Senior Program Associate with the Heritage Tourism Program, National Trust for Historic Preservation. After returning to Texas on Thursday I will be in Galveston, trying to finish dismantling the Houston office.

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National Scenic Byway Award for Wetlands and Wildlife

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Aug 242009

One of Fermata’s favorite Kansas projects, the Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway, has won the national award for planning and development of a national scenic byway. This award, accepted by the Byway committee (see photo), is presented by the National Scenic Byway program.

The Fermata team on this project included Sandra Murphy, Brenda Adams-Weyant, Maja Smith, Robin Leonard, Ana Patino-Martinez, Kathy Thomas, Shomer Zwelling, Gorges web design, Q Media, Folia, and myself.

I especially want to congratulate our clients – the Byway committee, Barton County, Cris Collier, Janet Crane, Janice Klug, Jerry Segraves, and Diana Watson. All invested endless hours in insuring the success of this wonderful project.

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Kansas Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway Opening

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May 162009

Fermata’s Ted Eubanks spoke at the 2009 Wings & Wetlands Birding Festival held in Great Bend, Kansas, April 24-26. While at the festival he celebrated (with hundreds of attendees) the opening of the new Kansas Wetlands Education Center at Cheyenne Bottoms. Finally, Ted spent part of Sunday touring (and photographing) the installation sites for many of the Wetlands and Wildlife Scenic Byway interpretive panels designed by Fermata.